6:23 PM,
Sep. 17, 2013

Chris Boyd appeared in a Nashville criminal court hearing on Sept. 13, 2013 to plead guilt for tampering with evidence in the Vanderbilt University rape case. His attorney Roger May stand by Boyd during hearing.

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Brian Haas
The Tennessean

On the same day that Vanderbilt kicked starting wide receiver Chris Boyd off the football team for trying to cover up a June 23 rape incident involving teammates in a university dorm, prosecutors said the university's starting quarterback was "misidentified" as having been on the scene after the attack.

On Friday at a plea hearing for former wide receiver Chris Boyd, Deputy District Attorney General Tom Thurman read details in court that indicated Boyd and two others helped move an unconscious 21-year-old woman from a hallway back into a dorm room after she had been raped. He didn't name the ...